The French Consort Project will collaborate with a revolving cast of scholars and musicians for concerts and educational outreach projects. The consort instruments will also be used as a learning lab by exposing students at Purdue University Fort Wayne to research-based performance projects and engaging them in concepts of historically informed performance.
Dr. John Romey
Founder and Lead Scholar
Dr. Romey is a cultural historian specializing in music and sound from early modern France and colonial South America. He received a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology with an emphasis in Historical Performance Practice from Case Western Reserve University in 2018 and is currently Assistant Professor of Musicology at Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Dr. Romey is also an expert on the history of the Viennese Violone and performs professionally on violones and viols of all sizes. He has published two research articles based on French Renaissance viols, both of which are open-access and are linked in the bibliography.
Email: JRomey@pfw.edu
(Photo by Mike Moore)